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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2004-0688 json

Multiple integer overflows in (1) the xpmParseColors function in parse.c, (2) XpmCreateImageFromXpmImage, (3) CreateXImage, (4) ParsePixels…

published 2004-09-24 22 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-0687

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.2%
EPSS 7.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple integer overflows in (1) the xpmParseColors function in parse.c, (2) XpmCreateImageFromXpmImage, (3) CreateXImage, (4) ParsePixels, and (5) ParseAndPutPixels for libXpm before 6.8.1 may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed XPM image file.

Patch / fix

  • openmotif RHEL 3 2.2.3-4.RHEL3.4
  • openmotif21 RHEL 3 2.1.30-9.RHEL3.4
  • jabberd network satellite 4.2 2.0s10-3.37.rhn
  • jabberd network satellite 4.2 2.0s10-3.38.rhn
  • tomcat5 network satellite 4.2 5.0.30-0jpp_10rh
  • jfreechart network satellite 4.2 0.9.20-3.rhn
  • rhn-apache network satellite 4.2 1.3.27-36.rhn.rhel3
  • rhn-apache network satellite 4.2 1.3.27-36.rhn.rhel4

red hat advisories RHSA-2004:537RHSA-2008:0524RHSA-2004:478

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2004-0688 updated

openmotif21 stack overflows in libxpm

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 XFree86 4.3.0-69.EL, XFree86-sdk 4.3.0-69.EL, XFree86-twm 4.3.0-69.EL, XFree86-xdm 4.3.0-69.EL, XFree86-xfs 4.3.0-69.EL, XFree86-libs 4.3.0-69.EL, +24 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 XFree86 4.3.0-69.EL, XFree86-sdk 4.3.0-69.EL, XFree86-twm 4.3.0-69.EL, XFree86-xdm 4.3.0-69.EL, XFree86-xfs 4.3.0-69.EL, XFree86-libs 4.3.0-69.EL, +24 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2004:478
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2004:479
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 XFree86 4.3.0-69.EL, XFree86-sdk 4.3.0-69.EL, XFree86-twm 4.3.0-69.EL, XFree86-xdm 4.3.0-69.EL, XFree86-xfs 4.3.0-69.EL, XFree86-libs 4.3.0-69.EL, +24 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2004:478
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2004:479
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 XFree86 4.3.0-69.EL, XFree86-sdk 4.3.0-69.EL, XFree86-twm 4.3.0-69.EL, XFree86-xdm 4.3.0-69.EL, XFree86-xfs 4.3.0-69.EL, XFree86-libs 4.3.0-69.EL, +24 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2004:478
  • Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2004:479
  • Red Hat Satellite v 4.2 (RHEL v.3 AS) jabberd 2.0s10-3.37.rhn, jfreechart 0.9.20-3.rhn, tomcat5 5.0.30-0jpp_10rh, perl-Crypt-CBC 2.24-1.el3, rhn-modperl 1.29-16.rhel3, openmotif21 2.1.30-9.RHEL3.8, +4 more Red Hat Satellite v 4.2 (RHEL v.4 AS) jabberd 2.0s10-3.38.rhn, jfreechart 0.9.20-3.rhn, tomcat5 5.0.30-0jpp_10rh, perl-Crypt-CBC 2.24-1.el4, rhn-modperl 1.29-16.rhel4, openmotif21 2.1.30-11.RHEL4.6, +4 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0524

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Exploit prediction

7.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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